OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- The Baltimore Ravens are considering staying on the West Coast for the second week of the regular season.

The Ravens would cut down on one of the four long flights this year if they remained out west after their season opener in Denver and before their game at Oakland. Baltimore would need to find a hotel, practice fields and workout facilities for an entire week.

"We have not made a final decision on staying out there," coach John Harbaugh said. "We’re leaning in that direction, especially in the first week."

This sounds like it will be a one-time occurrence for Baltimore. The Ravens are unsure whether they will do it again in October, when they play at San Francisco on Sunday and then have a Monday night game at Arizona.

"It’s a little bit of a longer trip," Harbaugh said.

Ravens officials requested the NFL to schedule their away games at Oakland and San Francisco in consecutive weeks so they could remain in the Bay Area for a week. But the league decided to split up those games for all four teams who play at Oakland and San Francisco in 2015.

Trying to reduce another long flight is not an unprecedented move. Jim Harbaugh, the brother of Ravens coach John Harbaugh, kept the 49ers on the East Coast a couple of times when San Francisco had back-to-back games there.

"We’ve got a couple of sleep-study doctors and time-zone doctors and things like that, that we’re talking to," Harbaugh said. "We just want to do the smartest thing – whatever it is. We’ll probably have a decision on that within two weeks, I’d say."